Flash :: Animated Gif Help In Exporting

Exporting To Animated Gif
I need to be able to create an animated gif that is less then 15 kb in size.

The best I can do, with just text and simple, straight movement tweens is around 30k. That's exporting at 16 colours.

I noticed there was an option for smoothing that was checked. When I uncheck this it brings the filesize down to around 5k, but I don't see anything happening in the gif when I view it.

I've attached the file I am trying to work with here.

Exporting Animated Gif
I have an extremely short animation. I export the movie as an animated gif and the image is grainy. If I put the same graphic into Fireworks and export a gif, it is clear. Any ideas?

Thanks.

Exporting Animated .gif
Dear All.

I have been tyring to export an animated banner, in animated .gif format. it's a simple animated text with no gradients. it should go on top of a graphic which has some gradients and is multi-coloured and with effects (the colours are similar to the one i used in the page) as you can see here the text looks a bit funny and the quality is low: http://www.artapart.net/test.html

what's the best way to optimize it?

Exporting As An Animated Gif
I've created a very simple flash movie, which I am looking to export as an animated gif.

No problem there, I can do that easy enough.

My problem is that the flash movie document bg is: #F5F6F6, when it is exported the bgcolor comes out as: #FFFFF

Any ideas, I looked at the export settings and ticked transparent but still no joy.

Help With Exporting Swf As An Animated Gif
Hey,

Just having trouble with exporting my swf as an animated gif for some reason when i export it comes looking as if its being viewed at 256 colours instead of Millions...:S very confusing because in flash its crystal clear and sharpe but after exporting its very pixalated and in terrible colour

anyone have any ideas on this
hope to hear back asap

Cheers for the help peeps in advance

Problem About Exporting To Animated GIF
Hi, I have a question about exporting a clip into animated GIF file. The graphics in the clip were exported, but the actionscript, which provides animation for the graphics, were not exported. Therefore, it ends up a static graphic. However, if I export the clip to swf file, everythings okay (the graphics with animation).

Does the exporting function (fla file into animated GIF file) support actionscript?
Is there any way to solve this problem?

Thank you for your reply and help
Leo doe

Exporting As An Animated Gif And Using In Html
I figured out how to export a flash file as an animated gif but when I try to use it in an htm file it does not play. This is the first time trying to create an animated gif with flash. I always use swf files but have a client who cannot use them. I'm creating an email with an animated header. It works great with flash but cannot get the animated gif working.

Through the forums I learned that I can publish as an animated gif and export as an animated gif. Neither seems to work. Obviously there is another step I need to take. Can someone please help me out? Thanks in advance!

Exporting SWF To Animated GIF Not Working
Hello,

I'm trying to export a swf (which I did not create) as an animated gif, but when I do this only the first frame shows up. I see in the forum others have asked this same question but I didn't see an answer that applied (I believe these are timeline animated .fla files although how do I know that or ascertain that?)

I'd really appreciate the help...

Thanks!

Problem Exporting As Animated Gif In Cs3
i'm setting it to publish as animated gif, setting the options i want in the publish settings pop up under 'gif' - but it just keeps giving me a single frame image.

am i missing something?

Exporting Flash As An Animated Gif...
I have a small picture sequence in flash that I need to convert to an animated gif. The only problem is, every time I try it the pictures come out grainy or worse. (It looks fine in Flash and if I export is as a Flash, but not when I export it in gif.)

This is driving me crazy! lol I've tried everything I can think of.

Help!!! Please

TIA

Teresa

Exporting Animated GIF Problem
A Happy New Year to all you guys!

I have this problem:

I have a movie (a banner) and i would like to export it as an animated gif. I have read many posts regarding this problem...but with all the publish settings combinations i've tried i've ended up with a bad looking animated gif(frame rate decreased, bad looking gradients, pixelated looking, etc).

All my animations are on the main timeline( no movies...only motion tweens), i'm using Flash MX 2004 Professional.

In a post from 2 years ago oldnewbie said something about using another program(Gif Construction Set) and convert the .avi file exported from Flash into an animated gif...but it ends up with a bad looking animated gif also...
and the frame rate seems to be decreased.

Please advise.

Regards,
Dragos.

Locking Colours When Exporting To Animated Gif
Hey all

Is it possible, when exporting to animated gif, to lock down certain colours as one would do in photoshop to ensure they get used?

Fanx

Serious Problems Exporting A Movie To An Animated GIF
I'm trying to export a movie to an animated GIF and, well, the resulting file is garbage. I don't mean that it looks sub-optimal..I mean that it looks absolutely nothing like the source movie at all. I've heard from others that there are significant problems with the Flash export-to-GIF routines, but does anyone have any tips for trying to improve the situation?

Thanks.

Exporting To Animated .gif Distorting Image
Hey All -

I've created a few banners for a friend, and when I export them to animated .gif format, the border essentially disappears and the imagery that I've developed in Flash becomes slightly distorted.

Is there perhaps a setting in the export dialogue that I'm failing to set that might be causing this behavior?

I'm using Flash MX.

Thanks in advance -

Tim

Exporting Flash Animation As Animated Wallpaper?
Simple question -

How do you make a flash animation into animated wallpaper?

Thanks

Making Banner Ads In Flash - Exporting Animated Gifs
I have been trying to make an animated banner in flash to be exported as a gif, whenever I do, the quality is awful. I thought at first it was because I had too much going on i.e. too many gradients/colours etc, but as a test I drew a grey circle on white, exported that (256 colours, smooth selected) and even this does not have a smooth edge.

can anyone offer any ideas why flash is not capable of exporting a decent gif??

thanks

Create Non-animated Equivalent Of Animated Flash 8 Animation
Hi, I'm working with a template that includes Flash. It's bad enough I've never touched Flash before this project, but I have to actually work with someone else's engineering of one (I'm retrofitting a purchased template)! LOL

Anyway, all I want to do is to save a completely non-animated version of the animated version I've managed to perfect. The plan is to use it on sub-pages of our presentation so that people only have to experience the animation when they land on the page. Not when they're navigating around. I've already tried a couple of things including saving an image map version. All that did was present me with an error message that certain components weren't included, which is tentatomount to being non-usuable to me for now.

So, is there a way to tell Flash, "Hey, this looks great, now give me a static version of it with working links and everything!".

Thanks if anyone can help!

Dave

Animated SWF Is Not Animated When Included In Another Movie As A Clip
I have an SWF that, when run by itself, is an animation of a graphic equalizer display. But when I bring it into a new movie as a movie clip (I want to change the alpha, throw up some text, clear the txt, change the alpha, etc), the animation does not work, and all I get is the static images.

FLA is at http://www.black-diamond.com/flash_src/equalizer.fla if anyone wants to take a look at it. The one I am trying to bring it into is at http://www.black-diamond.com/flash_src/test3333.fla (the corresponding .swf to see what happens is at http://www.black-diamond.com/flash_src/test3333.swf ).

Any suggestions greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

(Reposted because last title wasn't descriptive enough)

Exporting Image Created With Flash.. Overlaying Image With Text Then Exporting As Jpg
Is this possible? Say I have a user insert certain text onto a image using flash which would not be hard, but then is it possible to export the image as a jpeg for the user to download? The seems impossible but I figured it might be possible.

Animated Rollover Using Animated Gif
Hi

I am brand spankin new to this forum

I want to make a rollover button in flash using a animated gif.....
is this possible?

i will explain

I made a simple gif that would be the button in idle position.

then i made a animated gif of same picture with edges starting to glow (the glow fades in, its only like 7-8 frames) i wanted this to come on in the originals place so it looks like the word home is glowing

i cannot figure it out. I am a photoshop guru, but am still taking baby steps in flash.

the reason i made button in photoshop is beacause you can make it look a lot cooler than with vector graphics(unless u wanna spend a lot of time making it look like metal)

can someone please help!!

I will atach my gifs so u can see if you can do it!!

Exporting
Scene=preload, Layer=Layer 5, Frame=1: Line 4: You must export your movie as Flash 5 to use this expression.
objTime = new Date();

I keep on getting this error message: must export movie to flash 5, what does this mean, and how do I correct the problem?

Exporting
I've got a movie (wow).

When i press test movie my movie works 100% fine, exactly how i want it. When i export the movie and open the file it doesn't work. i just get a dot that sits there. i think the dot is part of the movie, one of the symbols.

It seems like none of the code is being included when i export it.

Is this because none of the code is being exported? If so how do i turn it on?

I also would have thought it would work because when you test movie it exports it and plays it.

Well, i hope someone can point out my stupidity to me.

Thanks.

Exporting To 4 From 5
maybe this question belongs in newbies, or maybe it's easy and i don't know about it, but is there a way to export to Flash 4 from a movie containing Flash 5 actionscript without changing all the script?? be brutal if you know of a way, 'cause i'm desperate. thanks in advance all.

regards,
BIT

Exporting To Cd Rom
Hi All,
I created a navigation bar in flash that has a drop down menu which will open some pdf files. I exported that as a swf to dreamweaver and all was well, UNTIL I saved it to cdrom for others to review. This site will be accessed from CDROM only and I can't figure out where to direct my geturl to so that it opens these files. I have the site set in dreamweaver to a relative site but I am lost from there.
Can anyone help me PLEASE.
Thanks

Exporting To *.mov
Hi!

I tried to export my Flash movie to .mov format, but somehow, I keep getting this error that quicktime cannot handle the movie etc... The thing is I tried to do this before, but in Flash 5, and it works. So, is there any specific requirements for Flash MX wrt exporting to Quicktime format?

Thanks

Exporting .mov
i'm trying to export my .fla into a movie to be used as a looping movie for our projector. when i export it as .mov it gives me an error that my version of quicktime is unable to handle the request...or something like that. i have the newest version of quicktime - but not the pro version. is there a way to export it so when i put it on a dvd it will loop continuously?

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Exporting .avi
Everytime I try to export the .fla to .avi it gives me a message saying that there was an error and it was unable to create the file. It actually worked once bofre, but when tried again or at another computer it failed . Is there smoething wrong with the codecs we are using?
I am trying to get this "animation" into video Factory 2.0 and if there is a way around the .avi that would also help. Bottom line...help me export.

Exporting As Avi
I started making a flash based narrative animation for my AVCE course by creating characters seperately, then adding them as movie clips over animated backgrounds. When i hand it in it would be best if it is an avi so that it can be put onto VHS, via an editing computer, for a film showcase.

The problem is that the movie clips don't run when exported as an avi. Is there anyway around this or will i have to hand in the SWF file? Any help would be much appreciated, cheers.

Swf Exporting
Hi can someone tell me how to set the publish seting for a swf.
I would like to email the swf to a viewer, but at the same time, I would like it to show full screen and also be protected, the viewer cant do anything but view it, can this been done? thanks

Exporting Eps
I'm not sure this is the right forum, but hopefully someone knows the answer.
A few months ago I came across a tutorial explaining how to export an image from a flash movie (at runtime) in .eps format. Now I can find no sign of it anywhere. I know it included exporting the image as a text file and the user changing the suffix to .eps by hand, (which sort of implies that it is in fact a print spool file), but I don't know where to start.

Does anyone have any ideas please?

thanks in advance

andy

Exporting
does flash export as an aminated gif??

Exporting Wav From Fla
Hi!
How can i export a list of wav files out of a fla file?
thx

Exporting
What i would like to do is export a single frame as a jpg. This needs to be done using action scripting though, i dont know if this is possible or not but if anyone knows the answer then i would be grateful if they could let me know.

Exporting
Im building a lage site , 10 pages about 150 kb per page. Im ginving a freind the site to put up on the enternet and am wondering how to finish it up.
Specically the preloaders and the scenes.
In other words will this be like individual movies, preloader to page?
What do I use for the preloaders as far as code . Ive just got
go to and play each scene. Is that right?
Thanks.

Exporting AVI
Hi,

I've built an animation using a song and some pictures that changes acording to the timeframe of that song. I've positioned everything so the animation looks fine and follows that song. When exporting to EXE or SWF, the animation looks fine but when exporting to AVI, the animation is faster then the song. Is there a way to fix that... Please help me I need to create a VCD in a week...

Regards,

Alain

Exporting
I have been playing around with Dreamweaver and Flash and am having a problem.

Can anyone tell me how to correctly export an image from Flash so that I can insert it into Dreamweaver.

At the moment when I do it the image appears to have a very fine white border around it when I load it up in a webpage.

Thanks

Exporting For Web
I am creating a website that will be completely Flash. When I visit the website, I want the window to be the size of the Flash document and unresizable. If you don't know what I mean, visit www.lookingbackfans.com. How can I do this? Thanks.

William Nutt

Exporting Mp2
can flash export mpeg 2 files? I know it can export quicktime but what about mp2?

Exporting To The Net.
Hi,
Upto now ive never been able to make a flash animation. now i can i really want to put it up on the net.
I make ALL my animations in the 3d flash animator 4 release 5 and i have the following:
A place to upload files on the net.
I Can make a website.
I have the entire Macromedia works

So how do i put them on the internet??
plz help.

Exporting GIF's.
Ok, i'm REALLY bad with Flash, but i wanted to know how to export GIF's with higher quality.. all of the ones i export come out fuzzy and messed up.

Exporting As An AVI
Hello

Ive made an animation and have tried exporting as an avi, when playing the avi back the screen seems to be split into 3 and is a bit 'ghosted' if that makes sense? Does anyone know why this is happening? Help!! :-/

Exporting To AVI
Ok i've made a nice animation clip that includes movie clips and an imported video clip. When i export the file as a AVI i lose the movie clip animations. Why is this and how can i get the complete animation in a video format? Thanks

Exporting .fla
Hi

I am exporting a flash file and choosing various percentages for jpeg files. unfortunatly if i choose 100% or 5% it makes no difference to the file size?

can anyone offer any help?

thanks

Alzabal

Exporting A Swf From A Swf?
hey just wondered if anyone knows if there is a way to create swfs from inside flash? like if you could somehow create/export a swf from a movie clip created dynamically or manually in a flash swf at runtime?

thanks for any help or leads.

Exporting As .mov
Hows it going folks. Ok I wanted to export my Flash movie as a Quicktime .mov. Kept getting that error message at the start but upon further investigation on the macromedia site I discovered that it need to be converted to a flash player 4 file as quick time currently only supports flashplayer4.

Anyway I did that and it worked however it has caused problems with how my animation plays which I am assuming is due to the F.P4 conversion.

Can anybody help me with this problem. Surely all Flash movies arent converted to F.P 4 inorder to play as .mov?

Thanks

Exporting As .avi
I have a big final project for a video technology class and I have worked very hard in Flash combining animation with live action and such. When the time came to export it as a .avi (to give it some finishing touches in video editing software and also to meet the requirement), the .avi file came out all messed up. It shows pictures but it wont animate them accordingly, its hard to explain but its almost like a slideshow without transitions.

How do I fix this? I'm desperate this project was due today.